Critiquing the sitcom : a reader / edited by Joanne Morreale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morreale, Joanne, 1956-

Series:

Television series.

The Television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television comedies--United States.

Television comedies.

United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 357 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 Television in the 1940s and 1950s 1

1. Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Woman's Narrative / George Lipsitz 7

2. Amos 'n' Andy and the Debate over American Racial Integration / Thomas Cripps 25

3. Situation Comedy, Feminism, and Freud: Discourses of Gracie and Lucy / Patricia Mellencamp 41

4. Returning from the Moon: Jackie Gleason and the Carnivalesque / Virginia Wright Wexman 56

5. Sitcoms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950s Homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich 69

Part 2 Television in the 1960s 87

6. The Unworthy Discourse: Situation Comedy in Television / Paul Attallah 91

7. From Gauguin to Gilligan's Island / Laura Morowitz 116

8. "Is This What You Mean by Color TV?" Race, Gender, and Contested Meanings in Julia / Aniko Bodroghkozy 129

Part 3 Television in the 1970s 151

9. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Women at Home and at Work / Serafina Bathrick 155

10. I Love Laverne and Shirley Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms / Alexander Doty 187

Part 4 Television in the 1980s 209

11. Where Everybody Knows Your Name Cheers and the Mediation of Cultures / Michelle Hilmes 213

12. Structuralist Analysis 1: Bill Cosby and Recoding Ethnicity / Michael Real 224

Part 5 Television in the 1990s and Beyond 247

13. Roseanne: Unruly Woman as Domestic Goddess / Kathleen Rowe Karlyn 251

14. The Triumph of Popular Culture Situation Comedy, Postmodernism, and The Simpsons / Matthew Henry 262

15. Sitcoms Say Good-bye: The Cultural Spectacle of Seinfeld's Last Episode / Joanne Morreale 274

Figure 12.1. Dissident Value Conflict in Super Media 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-337) and index.

ISBN:

0815629834

OCLC:

50348291